John Cruickshank

John Cruickshank (18 July 1924, Belfast – 11 July 1995 ) was an Irish scholar and writer on the French language and French and francophone literature and culture. He was the first professor of French at the University of Sussex; founding the French studies department at that institution in 1962. attended grammar school at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in his youth.

In 1951 Cruickshank returned to the United Kingdom to take a post as assistant lecturer at the University of Southampton. He remained there for the next eleven years, and in 1961 was made a senior lecturer. In 1962 he left Southampton to establish the French studies program at the University of Sussex as that institution's first professor of French. He remained there until his retirement in 1989.

Partial list of books Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (1960, author) The Novelist as Philosopher (1962, contributing author among multiple writers) Aspects of the Modern European Mind (1969) French Literature and Its Background (1968-1970, six volumes as editor and contributing author)